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Xerox Alto restoration day 5: Smoke and parity errors

Xerox Alto restoration day 5: Smoke and parity errors

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Martin Maly
Sep 06, 2016
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In today's Xerox Alto restoration session we investigated why the system doesn't boot. We find a broken wire, hook up a logic analyzer, generate a cloud of smoke, and discover that memory problems are preventing the computer from booting. (In previous episodes, we fixed the power supply, got the CRT…

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